Academy Award winner Julia Roberts is expecting her third child and reports suggest that this time it will be a baby boy.

The 39-year-old star already has twins, daughter Hazel Patricia and son Phinnaeus Walter, with husband Danny Moder.

A source told Star magazine that after three unsuccessful in-vitro attempts in the summer, Julia was convinced she would never have another child.

But miracles do happen and the 'Pretty Woman' actress is apparently due to give birth to a bouncing baby boy on June 22nd.

Julia told Australian OK! magazine that having children has helped her to 'expand as a human being and have more empathy and more compassion'.

She said: 'I didn't realise you could really just like your children as much as your friends. I just love them.'

The actress married her cinematographer husband Danny in July 2002. The couple's twins were born two years later in November 2004.